Senior Specialist Cloud Operation

About Qiddiya Investment Company

Qiddiya Investment Company is seeking a Senior Specialist - Cloud Operation to join their team in Riyadh, Riyadh Province. This is a full-time position focused on managing and optimizing cloud environments to ensure reliable and efficient operations.

Role Purpose

The Senior Specialist – Cloud Operations is responsible for the daily operation, administration, monitoring, and optimization of the organization’s cloud environments. This role ensures cloud services remain available, secure, reliable, and cost-efficient, while providing advanced technical support and driving automation and continuous operational improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate, administer, monitor, and support enterprise cloud platforms and services.
• Ensure the availability, stability, performance, and operational readiness of cloud environments.
• Monitor cloud infrastructure and proactively identify and resolve performance, capacity, availability, and configuration issues.
• Provide L3 technical support for complex cloud incidents, service requests, and change requests.
• Perform cloud platform patching, upgrades, maintenance, troubleshooting, and lifecycle activities.
• Implement automation to improve operational efficiency and reduce repetitive manual activities.
• Support cloud security controls, identity and access management, configuration standards, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Support incident, problem, and change management activities, including root-cause analysis for recurring or critical issues.
• Monitor cloud utilization and support FinOps/cost optimization activities to improve resource efficiency.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, runbooks, and SOPs.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Network, Application, Architecture, and DevOps teams to resolve operational issues and support new solutions.
• Support cloud migrations, deployments, configuration changes, and integration with on-premises infrastructure.
• Maintain monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, and high-availability capabilities.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in cloud reliability, scalability, security, and operational processes.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Typically 5–8 years of relevant IT/infrastructure experience, including strong hands-on exposure to cloud operations.
• Hands-on experience with one or more major platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, offering an opportunity to contribute to the operational excellence of cloud environments.